Digital Signage and Kiosks System - Case Study

Client Profile

The client is Germany based media company focused on providing Digital Signage and Kiosks systems for point of sales (POS) of Car Rental companies. The company works with some of the Europe’s best Car Rental companies like Europcar, Hertz and Avis.

Purpose

To develop a Digital Signage and Kiosks application with content management facility.
Allows managing templates, content creation and allow users to preview contents to be displayed on Digital Signage System.

Business situation

A need is felt to develop a web application for managing the contents to be displayed on the digital signage system placed at the Point of Sale (POS). The system can display customized contents and allows control and management of hardware (typically a TV Screen) at the point of sale.

Technical situation

The application allows flexible creation of templates (layouts for displaying templates) and allows the user to manage the content therein. A PHP scripted solution offers interactions with flash player and supports all standard file formats to be used as media.

Solution

A web application is developed with open source web technologies of PHP-MySQL with following feature

Manage Send loops (Sequence of spots)
Manage Articles (Spots)
Manage Media library
Client profiles and account management
Content Preview and synchronization with client machines

Benefits

The immediate benefits acknowledged by the client were

Improved value management
Flexibility in features management
Improvements in usability and attending customer wish list
Upgrading to latest technologies
Enhanced online servicing experience

Tools and Technologies used for implementation

PHP scripting with AJAX
MySQL as backend database
HTML and JavaScript